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a rescue is under way off russia's far east coast as ice breakers strive to save hundreds on board the last of five vessels that became stranded over a week ago. the end is now in sight to this very difficult and drawn out saugor at sea we'll bring you all the details in just a moment. among the week's main news be unexplained mass deaths of birds and fish around the world feels apocalyptic prophecies but some experts say sensation

hungry media and refusing to let science speak up. a string of terror linked arrests across europe raises concern that. that ground checks all that in extremis in. the immigrants who when america's work visa lottery say getting the green card is leaving the scene read a little help to adapt to their new home. their well live from moscow you're watching artie's weekly news review but first more than three hundred people stranded on board a ship in the freezing waters off russia's far eastern coast are still awaiting rescue it's the last of five vessels that became stuck on the week ago when he became trapped in

a nice get moon rescue mission to tumble and bring us up to date on the rescue operation that it's progress. to russian icebreakers are currently working hard to begin freeing the third of three ships which were stranded in the ice the thirtieth of december just over a week ago the first of these ice breakers. is currently towing the second. of those those ships which is a freighter to safety it's already saved a research ship which was the first one to be freed the second icebreaker is going to join i've been home a car of it's only now a few miles away from the site that had been sent to help admiral mark karr off to work to extract the third and the largest of these three ships with three hundred people on board so with any luck the the operation entering its final stages now once those two ships are in place they will start to break

a path around this this last ship and then to tow it out of the ice bound area yes tom you mention the final stages there out what is the timeframe for when the ships will be free we think. it's been a very long and drawn out process there it is entering its final stages now although this is the the largest ship. of the three that is one of the reasons why they've had to bring in a second icebreaker it's a very big ship it's going to be very heavy and slow to tow it and it's going to take longer to break the ice around it one icebreaker they thought just wasn't enough. so it could take quite a while longer conditions on board the ship though are ok it was asked earlier whether there was enough supplies these ships have been stuck for over a week now but as we spoke to the captain of this this third ship it's a it's

a resupply ship itself i spoke to him earlier he told us a bit more about what he thinks about this time frame. everything depends on the weather when the wind comes down the rescue operation will become quicker right now the cross an icebreaker is on its way here twenty five miles away we have enough water and food supplies that can last us for four months. it was the weather that created all these problems in the first place very high winds very low temperatures for the region minus seventeen created a lot of ice very fast eight meters thick in some parts some particular blocks of ice up to twenty five meters thick that's what got all the ships stuck in the first place and that's the one of the reasons it's taken to extract them so long to extract them but it's thought that once these two ice breakers could begin working together presumably very in a very short space of time probably in the next few hours they might we have to extract this supply ship and bring all the ships to safety. ok but there for now

i'll keep us updated tom tom bottom reporting there. live from moscow this is our take later in the program a report from iraq's slums the privilege to scavenge for life in junkyards touched by the billions of american dollars being pumped into the countries in construction. a series of mysterious mass deaths around the globe have been baffling scientists and stone speculation the first incident to be noticed was when black birds began falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas news even then flocks of birds dying in sweden and italy as well as the lives of fish from brazil to new zealand triggered some far fetched online guesswork theories over the cause range from pollution to signaling the beginning of the end money based vet pets who knew this rare told r.t.

that it's happened before in the following list a geisha is needed. but. it's impossible to see for sure what's happened to the birds and fish until proper interest occasions are held in fact i don't believe that these events are interlinked he followed one after another and that attracted universal attention is. not the first time that the world is observing such phenomena it's happens in other countries too at the moment the investigation in arkansas claims or not topsy has revealed the bird suffered from internal bleeding but the research is yet to be completed we could also be dealing with some new virus or so into it is another possible explanation but i repeat that full investigation is needed to establish the cause of what's happened and find a scientific explanation for it. security is being tightened that britain's made it transport hubs is the latest in a series of letters with european nations increasing fearing imminent terror

attacks authorities say they foiled several serious attempts that the wave of recent arrests is proof they're coping with a single person off reports from austria people are wondering how a terror suspects are managing to walk straight through the news front door. like many others small you would be and downs in southern austria seems quiet and peaceful while never judge a book by its cover one of its residents is now under arrest suspected of being the brain behind what we could be extremists in planning attacks in the heart of the european union an ethnic chechen was detained at the airport in vienna as he returned from a pilgrimage to mecca news about the incident went around the world all the streams really none of the locals seem to know much about it. we didn't hear anything about it i'm afraid i wasn't. i know nothing about it and i don't care some didn't want to be filmed at all but was it really because of

a lack of information. and the deputy chief of one of australia's biggest newspapers christopher has been personally following this case armed with only a voice recorder. he was more successful in getting the locals to share. his with a really big population become unity with. so that people are sinking what what what comes next i mean this is just my neighbor he was here with me and i'm now has his arrested because of suspect. terror plot with his wife and children really appear to be leaving an ordinary life one of the most striking facts about this latest case is that the suspect has no hands he claims he lost the after being caught up in violence in chechnya now investigators are looking into or no other version whether his hands off while handling explosives

this is we're using questions austrians or hell well asylum seekers are checked before getting the green light bar she has one of the most liberal asylum policies in the european union and last year alone the country. received over fifteen thousand refugees from across the world with such an inflow of newcomers is becoming increasingly hard to find out who is who we want to know from the government in how many cases they actually did this background checks to make sure that this people are not criminal or dangerous second in how many cases austria has received. information from the countries of origin. and uncertain in how many cases asylum seekers actually have been refused the latest arrest is part of a massive police operation targeting an alleged extremist network in late november

twenty six people were detained in belgium germany and the netherlands all suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations it can be here in one and it can be in any other town in europe in an effort to get more information of asylum seekers the e.u. is now making deals with countries of origin including russia but many experts warn with hundreds of thousands of refugees already living in the union because of sequences of policies of some of its member states still lie ahead. vienna austria. wessel ahead here this hour we dive for cover on the outskirts of moscow. like the sovereign wailing on a voiceover explains that moscow is being hit by a ten megaton bomb that's amazing most of the city have to say even though you know this is just part of the visit to the bank seventy feels very real.

the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into regenerating iraq but with thousands they're still living below the poverty line many have yet to see any proof and living standards. have reports forced to live in dumping ground scavenging through waste just a few dollars. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through garbage displaced from southern iraq that miss family is too poor to send her to school and so she works eight hours a day sorting through baghdad's landfill collecting plastic and metal that will be shipped abroad for recycling a reward for carting forty pounds of trash around two dollars and fifty cents behind me six acres of back that's trash to many this is just waste but for the families here this is not only their livelihood but also their homes over two

thousand people live on baghdad's landfill. making their homes out of the garbage that the rest of the city throws away there's no running water or electricity and certainly no access to medical treatment if someone gets sick they have to be taken to hospital the same way they get drinking water by donkey cart can you believe in iraq you would live in a shack made from garbage people who threw the chain so we could see that iraq is still a wonderful place at least by god the old regime is gone and we have a new government but look at her situation much reliving in shocks america spending fifty three billion dollars on the reconstruction effort in iraq but the residents of our jet haven't seen a dime of it what they have seen though is the sectarian violence the drove them from their home five years ago. we used to live in abu ghraib you know then america came the war increased in iraq people started killing each other and so we fled because we were freed in two thousand and five names family moved to the landfill

and has been living there ever since too afraid and too poor to return home and not only the american occupation turned iraq into a battlefield as well as sowing the seeds of political corruption how can americans stand back and watch without intervening in this situation everybody knows about the failure of the iraq economy this is having a terrible impact on the ground zero. socially and economically. experts worry about the children who grow up too poor to go to school without an education and they're easily preyed on by criminal gangs and terrorist organizations who lure them with money and promises of a brighter future. how can i fulfill a dream when i leave in fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security it's really want to go back home there's no work we only need security that's it iraq remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders are part of daily life for

these families living out of trash still better than living with sunni neighbors back home but until that is possible until american reconstruction dollars reach the quarter of iraq's population that lives in poverty children like fatima will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer r t in baghdad. molly u.s. pals billions abroad it's the even little in the u.s. for those who choose to make america their new home thousands of immigrants who secure the sought after green card are finding they are being sidelined on this tour explains their education experience is being world condemning them to a life of their paid work. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. and touring for a chance to win for a mega million dollar fantasy believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them so for the life of

a ticket that could change their lives every year more than ten million people also play a different kind of lottery and fifty thousand when i meet one of them my name is owen and her husband teenage son and seven year old daughter you see here. are immigrants from nepal they entered and won the united states diversity visa lottery this lottery is a congressional mandate it's supposed to be an opportunity for people to come to america from countries with historically low rates of immigration the jackpot with permanent residency the prizes not cash but green cards and this startling experience was due to we had to start from scratch from zero once we got here two years of struggling with joblessness after finding their education in nepal doesn't count in the u.s. setbacks they never expected this we didn't know people used to say you're educated it will be easy america is a big country with

a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality it was a thing that didn't. best to hire. experts who work on immigration issues a lottery winners really are given no resources from the government that invited them here and the struggles of jimena and her family are not unique for most people we have encountered it's been very difficult they reflect a group of immigrants who come to the u.s. not because of a job lined up or a family sponsoring them but for many because of the vision of what they can achieve they really have that american dream of coming to the u.s. they know that they've invested in their education and they. i think that the united states is the place to put that skills those degrees and that ambition to work with the greatest possible return. when many find is maybe something no you're already an ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asian music restaurants and fashion but many struggle with is finding economic opportunities

that are any better than what they had in their home country or even finding jobs that allow them to survive here we're seeing a lot of the downward mobility of immigrants and often very highly qualified goods . finding foreign degrees and experience don't count for many u.s. employers these immigrants end up taking anything it means engineers and business managers and up his cab drivers and cashiers according to a study two out of five ford educated immigrants are either in this situation or unemployed all together it's an american dream they want to wake up from if you've got if we had known this we wouldn't have come life was much easier in my country people who see their plight firsthand argue the government should help more i do think it's the state department's responsibility and i think that the united states is going to lose out relative to other countries taking that step possibly losing out to countries such as canada and germany unless they make sure of winning the

lottery actually pays off lauren lyster our teeth new york. now and some of today's well news a u.s. congressman has been. in the head outside a grocery store in the state of arizona six others were killed in their own page as democrats friends was beaten. in a critical condition. was killed in the carnage as well as in i don't you know. the have a rest of the twenty two year old shooting. that thing is underway in southern sudan in a referendum that could see one of africa's largest most. the christian dominated south is widely expected to choose independence from remaining muslim rules thirdly clashes have among the run up to the week long about it though today's part of a two thousand and five peace deal which ended decades of civil war that claimed two million dollars and displaced twice as many others.

two frenchmen abducted in the jail have been killed by their captors after attempts to rescue them failed and never found dead following clashes between security forces and kidnappers the hostages were seized on friday from a ball or the capital by four read the group has admitted the crime but this speculation that shoot was behind it. and police in mexico have found fifteen headless corpse is outside the shopping center the resort town of acapulco they were among more than two dozen bodies found hundreds and signs were left there by indicating the deaths were they to rival drug gang turf wars victims were in their twenty's. georgia's capital with its centuries of history is currently undergoing a make over the wall of the forty's try to turn to police even to an ultra modern european style city locals say it's wiping out the city's heritage auntie's center

for looks behind the new facades. to police his old town is undergoing some major changes a government backed construction project aims to revamp the aging architecture they call it new life for the old town but others have called it a battle for the city's. first century these winding cobbled streets old houses and wooden balconies have delighted visitors and inhabitants but there are signs of construction are everywhere people are worried that it's destroying with hounds historical charge. neither architects nor historians work here the people conducting the reconstruction works were simply told to make it look nice the restoration project has proved extremely controversial but should the housing here is in desperate need of repair but in many cases the government has

simply rebuilt tearing down beautiful and often historical structures and putting in the place poor replicas. you know they've just done work to the facade of everything has been done in a slipshod way. past the cash funding the project comes from the international community little accountability and poor building control has led to accusations that the money isn't being invested wisely many of the homes now stand empty and uncompleted. the authorities have just built the structures of the hundred. others house has been in his family for ninety two year is he tells us that it's not just the poor quality building work that's a problem in the modernization boom many of the locals has sold to investors without them the town has lost the local spirit that made it so unique you can feel

it any more just a few looking fan of it. before this area was like a man. with so many people. it's like. but despite the criticisms the government adamant they aren't going to stop. we want to do it in law criticism is not always acceptable but if it's a liberal except meanwhile we're not going to stop the implementation of projects because. the project is attempting to tend to believe into a modern european style capital that is the old makes way to the new many feel that the town's historical heritage is being which east to rubble so. georgia. you can check out r.t. dot com for more on the stories we're covering as well as blogs and videos much of it just as well it's also online right now rediscovering this year's beauty and simplicity tourists become entranced. picturesque landscape sites is

a place some. also now israeli only see what some combat troops one thing sure social websites subtlety. it's only a few decades since much of the wealthy have total annihilation the soviet and america to mexico pounds over the red button today though many countries including russia don't think the charge to get rid of nuclear weapons but binders of those don't they still exist that's one of the reports. god it's a door like no other designed to stop a nuclear blast is it here to doris was

a pretty big thing as a shockwave or one of her stray it has a way to bark one point five goals and over sandra that interest will scar it was a mess of do with of was it has a war sickness about six meters or frame force of corporate if you had been lucky enough to escape the initial explosion inside or enough food in end to last about two weeks it was to command and control all the surface forces and nothing more. but you know what some days later nuclear war all fires in radiation level decreased as a level where when you can walk and breathe in special protective suits those stationed at the shelters would have had less the ninety seconds to put on a suit should radiation be detected inside and i can tell you that they aren't easy to get on in the rush of stock nor are they particularly comfortable where.

it's not just these purpose built facilities they were designed to protect in case of a nuclear attack one of most goes iconic landmark is also there to protect the biggest shelter in a war that has a mosque or metro system the station is. constructed as a bunker and it can see flights of people who is. at the time of strike the museum prides itself as being very hands on encouraging visitors to reach out and touch the past which. is it's not like an ordinary museum when nothing can be teched here on the contrary everything can be taxed is just going to hold in a hands a wedding equipment used when the bank was a pray tional. the complex extends kilometers underground creating a rapid war and below the streets jam packed with people comes ahead deep

underground visitors to the bunker get a chance to experience what it would have been like if moscow would ever being hit by a nuclear attack and this facility how to beat the red lights out rushing out the sirens wailing and a voice over explains that moscow is being hit by a ten megaton you kill a bomb that's amazing most of the city have to say even though you know this is just part of the visit to the bunker certainly feels very real peter all of a moscow. american censors have taken the n. word out of the classic novel huckleberry finn but what was deemed offensive to the african-american community of critics say the book is a work of art and the product of its time but to engage feelings in new york. sticks will break my bones but names will never harm so no name has ever been offensive to you because you know what you have to be emotionally disturbed to have any name a bench and there's some little more deeper than in me. so it's ok for anyone to

call anyone anything. it depends on how you say it and it depends on in the context that you use the word. yes more from the president. i think. thank. you.